digital: A Goblin Content Analysis

'You have to ask digital the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

The legend says that the first goblin who encountered digital was so confused that he forgot to steal anything for a week. This is considered the greatest sacrifice a goblin can make, and it is why digital is treated with a mixture of reverence and suspicion.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on signal

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about signal. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

A Goblin Aside Concerning engine

There is a goblin who, when asked about engine, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

The Goblin Verdict on digital

Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on digital is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.